Diamond ring feared to be in a trick-or-treat bag, Couple offering reward for its return
By Jordan Cioppa
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PITTSBURGH (WTAE) — A South Side woman is worried a trick-or-treater may have accidentally gone home with her diamond engagement ring on Halloween night.
“We searched everywhere, we searched in the basket of candy, the ring was nowhere to be found. And so, my only thought is that it went into one of the kids trick-or-treat bags,” Maddie Carver told Pittsburgh’s Action News 4.
Carver and her husband, Ryan Quiggle, handed out candy at their home on Larkins Way near S. 27th Street. They signed up to be on the South Side Kids Halloween route. She guessed around 100 trick-or-treaters stopped by that night.
“I was picking up big piles of candy out of our candy basket and throwing it kind of playfully into the kids trick-or-treat bags because they were so cute. We were having so much fun,” said Carver, who suspects the ring was fitting loose because of the cold weather.
The fun ended in tears for Carver at the realization that the ring was gone. Up until last Friday, it’s been sitting on her finger since December 2011, when she got engaged to her husband.
“I spent years and years on dating apps trying to find the love of my life and finally did and he proposed, and it was one of the best days of my whole life,” Carver said. “And you know that ring has so much sentimental value, even more than the monetary value; the sentimental value is worth more than anything.”
The couple has posted on Facebook, contacted police, and even called local schools, but so far, no luck.
They are offering a monetary award for the ring’s safe return.
“If you were trick-or-treating by our house that night, please check your kids’ bags. I would be so, so grateful. It would make my whole year,” Carver said.
Carver can be reached at 724-612-3212 or Maddcar@icloud.com. Quiggle can be reached at 585-443-5819 or rgquigg25@gmail.com.
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